dunes

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n. Plural form of dune.

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Ben was ecstatic about going to the dunes from the beginning, whereas I was excited about seeing the animals in the national parks, so I was more along for the ride for this part of the trip … This soon changed as we drove toward Sesriem Canyon and the dirt-covered hills began to lose their desert vegetation, and our dusty surroundings gradually became a deep reddish brown.

Stan Sesser/The Wall Street Journal Occupying just 1% of the Gobi, the dunes are a 60-mile-long stretch of peaks and valleys sculpted by the winds, rising in some spots to as many as 600 feet above the desert floor.

There are three more fragrances in the Lostmarc'h line, btw, and if you're still thinking about moving to some French seashore, please do try Ael-Mat ("guardian angel"), if you can get it, because this definitely exactly smells like the dunes on the French Atlantic coast in summer (the small pink flowers that grow on those dunes, that is, they smell so strong they fill the air with their scent quite intensely).

The sight of the sturdy, domed structure standing foursquare and isolated in the first patch of tillable soil to shoulder its way between the dunes was a grateful reminder that he was not mad, and that he had not fallen into some loathsome, spirit-inspired nightmare.